Next steps in preparing for post-quantum cryptography
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How system owners can begin planning for the migration to post-quantum cryptography (PQC).
Adapted edition
- Document type
- Reference Guide
- Format
- DOCX
- Pages
- 6
- Language
- English
- Version
- 1.0
- Updated
- 2026-09-16
- Category
- Information security
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0
Description
How system owners can begin planning for the migration to post-quantum cryptography (PQC) for organisational planning, review and training. NCSC guidance is advisory and should be applied to the organisation's own risks and obligations.
Contents
- Understanding the threat
- Implications of PQC migration for users and system owners
- Towards PQC standardisation
- Choosing algorithms and parameters for your use cases
- Hash-based signatures
- Post-quantum traditional (PQ/T) hybrid schemes
- Interoperability
- Implementation security
- Protocol constraints
- Additional considerations for PQ/T hybrid schemes
- Recommendations on PQ/T hybrid schemes
- Key takeaways from this guidance
- Source links
Source and licence
National Cyber Security Centre
AttributionNational Cyber Security Centre, “Next steps in preparing for post-quantum cryptography” (14 August 2024), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
ChangesAdapted 16 September 2026: converted the official HTML article into neutral text-only DOCX and PDF editions. Preserved article headings, paragraphs, lists and plain-text source-link destinations; normalized web whitespace and typographic punctuation; omitted site navigation, topic and download cards, images, logos, scripts, styles and page furniture.
Version history
- v1.016/09/2026